I read somewhere on here about cold conditioning beers in the bottle. I just put an Abbye Ale in the bottle on sunday and I put like half of them in the fridge. Is this gonna be a problem with getting efficient carbonation?
Someone said it would make the beer taste more smooth ( akin to a lager).....HELP!

I read somewhere on here about cold conditioning beers in the bottle. I just put an Abbye Ale in the bottle on sunday and I put like half of them in the fridge. Is this gonna be a problem with getting efficient carbonation?
Someone said it would make the beer taste more smooth ( akin to a lager).....HELP!

Cold conditioning in the bottle works well (Bottle Lagering). I have made 3 or 4 lagers this way. They are like a cool fermented steam beer. I would say they are super smooth.

Biermuncher is right, carbonate them first. Do so at the same fermentation temp recomended by the yeast mfg'r.

I have made all of my lagers like an ale. Fermented in the Primary & 2ndary at a constant temp. Then primed & bottled. Let them carb 3 weeks at fermentation temp. After they are carbed I put them in the fridge 6-8 weeks at 44F.

I got this idea from M.R. Reese, "Better Beer & How to Brew It". Its a dated book but the concept works. He mentions traditional lager methods are better but this works almost as good.

I used Superior Lager Yeast each time. I liken the quality to that of Nottinghams. Its also a good yeast for basement brewing. 48-65F Its a very tolerant yeast.

BTW - It almost as common as Nottinghams. Every LHBS has it on the shelf.